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Home of the HDR Cookbook – Primary Resource for HDR Photographers
About Me
My name is Klaus Herrmann. I am a photographer, author, instructor and creator of the HDR Cookbook. On this website, you get access to my work and a variety of resources covering the photographic techniques I use. These techniques include HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging, as well as panorama and vertorama photography.
I am from Germany, and my background is in science and education. I hold a PhD in computer science, and I have worked in research and teaching at different universities for 14 years, authoring over 70 scientific publications. I have also been a triathlete and a musician for many years. All of this influences my approach to photography in which I combine my creativity and artistic vision with a methodological scientific approach and quite some endurance. I love digging beneath the surface in photography and elsewhere in life, and I enjoy teaching and explaining complex stuff in a way that makes it accessible and applicable for a wider public.
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The Basic Concept of farbspiel-photo.com
farbspiel-photo.com is much more than a simple website for showing my images to the public – it is a website that provides educational material. This material can help you improve your photographic skills and it can teach you entirely new techniques.
The concept is simple. The entire website is built around three core elements:
The best place to begin your journey on farbspiel-photo.com are my galleries. Like every photographer, I use these galleries to showcase my work. But the galleries also serve another important purpose: The give you easy and quick access to diverse educational resources. This includes photo pages containing detailed information about the images, the equipment used and the post-processing work. It also includes Before-and-After comparisons, Making-of videos, and access to high-res source images for you to test your skills. You can get a more detailed overview here.
On farbspiel-photo.com you can not only view images – you can actually learn how to produce similar results. My free HDR Cookbook contains many practical recipes that show you how to achieve certain results and how to solve specific problems. You can access the HDR Cookbook directly using the menu to the left. Or you can access it through the galleries and photo pages that link to specific recipes that are relevant to the image you are viewing. However, the HDR Cookbook is not the only educational resource you can access on farbspiel-photo.com. You will get an overview here.
Viewing and learning are great, but they are only half the story. If you want to give me feedback, ask questions or just follow what I am doing, you can do so in many ways. You can leave comments here on farbspiel-photo.com directly on the page you want to discuss. But you can also connect with me on all the major social networks to interact with me and get lots of additional information that also goes beyond photography. You will get an overview on how and where to connect with me here.
All the sections can be accessed quickly using the main menu above.
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The whole farbspiel-photo.com site is driven by a blog. If you would like to receive timely updates of any new information I publish (photos, recipes, etc.) feel free to subscribe using the form that you find on the upper right on every page. You will get a free eBook, monthly newsletter and more. Check out the 5 reasons for subscribing.
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Over months and years, many visitors have left comments expressing how they feel about this website and its contents. Some of them have become subscribers and frequent visitors. Check out what they have to say.
What Does farbspiel Stand For?
farbspiel is a brand I developed to offer the material you find here. It is also a pseudonym under which you can find me and my work at different sites all over the Internet. Go ahead and search for farbspiel on Google.
‘farbspiel’ is a German word consisting of two parts ‘farb’ (‘Farbe’ means ‘color’) and ‘spiel’ (‘Spiel’ means ‘game’ or ‘play’). So you could translate it to ‘plays with colors’. I guess that would be my indian name if I had one. Of course, in the English language ‘spiel’ also means ‘chatter’. So, you could also translate the name to ‘chats about colors’ which would also be true.
Now you probably understand how profoundly meaningful this name is. 
How to Begin Your Journey with Me
There are numerous ways of discovering all the resources that farbspiel-photo.com provides to you. The best and most intuitive way is surely to start from the galleries. Browse through the photos and stop at those images that you like best. Take a look at the behind-the-scenes information on the individual photo pages, and follow the links to diverse educational resources that come with every photo.
Have fun!
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Many thanks.
A very interesting read and very instructional on different HDR techniques re panaraomas etc
You are welcome, David! Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks
Farbspiel,
I really like your selection of tools and your method to do hdr. thank you so much for the website, this is very nice of you, keep it coming please!
Cheers,
Sab.
Hello my friend. thanks for all the tips, tricks and techniques, awesome work!!!
Sehr geehrter Herr Herrmann,
von Ihren Fotografien bin ich absolut begeistert, besonders das vom Neuen Palais in Potsdam gefällt mir sehr. Wäre es möglich davon einen Druck zu bekommen? Das würde mich sehr freuen.
Beste Grüße aus München, Tido von Wedel
Hallo Herr von Wedel,
welches Bild meinen Sie denn genau? Ich glaube, das Palais in Potsdam habe ich gar nicht fotografiert.
Ich bin dabei, meine Bilder auch in gedruckter Form über das Internet anzubieten. Ich würde Sie einfach um ein wenig Gedulg bitten.
Freundliche Grüße
Excellent tips and how to’s. Thanks for sharing your expertise
Robert Riddell
Ireland
Thanks for the feedback, Robert! You’re welcome!
Cheers
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Thank you again for this wealth of information! Very generous of you to share it with us–it definitely has perked up my interest to revisit both HDR’s and pano’s.
Hi Klaus !
Your new website is really cool, very simple and nice to visit. I understand why you didn’t post a lot these times. Anyway, I’m always looking forward to your work !
Have a nice 2011 ending !
How are you doing. Follow your work on G+ and Flickr but never checked out your website. Amazing resources here. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Dave
I am doing great, David! Thanks!
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will find some inspiration and helpful tips!
Great website Klaus, very impressive content! Gruesse nach Deutschland in die Heimat.
Thanks a lot, Rolf! Vielen Dank!
Von wo kommen deine Grüße denn genau?
My big problem is that I speak little English and Russian. This is why I serve with e-mail and the Google translator.
I taught German pred50 years and I forgot it completely gotopvo because I have not used it.
So if you want me we can communicate only through e-mail address. I’m sorry!
I wish you much success and happiness.
Best regards
Hi I have nominated you for the Sunshine Award because I really like spending time at your blog……http://schleefy.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/sunshine-award/
Love your website….So much great information….I will return again and again, Thanks!
Hi Christopher,
thanks for your feedback. I hope your stay here will be worthwhile.
Cheers
Klaus
Hola Klaus soy una seguidora tuya,me gusta mucho tus fotografías y te sigo a diario,pero hay una cosa que te quería preguntar.
En los vídeos que pones sobre el procesado de las fotos los veo muy deprisa y me pregunto si hay alguna manera de verlos a su velocidad normal ya que me pierdo pues no manejo muy bien el photoshop.
Te doy las gracias anticipadas y un saludo amigo.
Hi José,
thanks for the feedback! So your questions is: “Are my Making-of videos available in normal speed?”
I am afraid they’re not. Let me explain: The videos are actually recorded as time-lapse movies: A screen capture is taken every 300 milliseconds. Recording a full 24 frame HD movie over the hours of post-processing is not feasible.
Having said that, however, there will be more normal-speed videos explaining the workflow in the future. So, please stay tuned.
Regards
Klaus
Just signed up today and start reading your “FREE” book, I say, thank you so much for sharing.
You’re welcome, Archie!
I hope you’ll get a lot of useful ideas from the book.
Cheers
Klaus